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I've found it in a book and assume it's got to be correct, but I cannot understand why the Past Perfect of I had been offered. Would was offered not have been clearer?
I explained that when I was in ...

First a little history before I pose my question. Without this history my question may not fully make sense.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia had a stroke in 1995. After this stroke, Crown Prince Abdullah ...

I have a question concerning Past and Present Perfect tenses/the sequence of events.
"As my school project, I have written a 44-pages-long research paper in which I had analysed the risk behaviours ...

My friend and I are having a debate about the following sentence and what to slot into the gap:
______ we had finished the course, we received certificates. (Before/After)
To me it sounds correct to ...

We normally use past simple tense to talk about the past and past perfect tense to talk about the past in the past, i.e. to talk about some event that that happened before some other event. I often ...

As both actions refer to the past, shouldn't we use Past Perfect to refer to the action that happened first (or rather didn't happen in this particular case)? That is, I am thinking the appropriate ...

When telling a story using the present tense, should events at a specific time in the past be recounted in the past perfect or in the past tense?
For example: I know to writeJack entered the room and ...

If I want to question someone about for how many hours a computer is turned on and running - and by the time of the question it is still running - which of the constructions below is more appropriate?
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